Malevolent Audio Systems
sonic services for the third modernity
sonic services for the third modernity
All action constitutes the system. Nothing can be touched beyond the boundaries of the system, or what is touched is assimilated to the system from the point of view of the system’s actions. From the point of view of beyond the system’s boundaries no action has occurred. The system cannot be exited beyond a cessation of participation. If one is to continue with an art practice then it can only be done in compliance with the system, which in the case of arthood comprises the institution reciprocally activated by the market, dropping scraps from above. A further implication for art practice and distribution is that if all action both constitutes and produces the system then any criticism of the system, or any form of its output also constitutes action and is conspicuously doubtful, with regard to functioning critically – if we take criticism to mean learning through errors contaminating the system, as it is taken in systems that maintain a criterion of judgement. If it is accepted amongst the community of art that anything can be art then there can be no criteria for judgement within current art practice. It is not possible to criticise an element of the system if all action critical or other is subsumed as a part of the system itself. Both criticism and passive contemplation constitute action, are equally significant and constitute the system. – Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock.
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